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Little table all done (4 photos).

18 years ago

Well, I finally got the gumption to grout this prescious little thing. The grout turned out nice - a deep charcoal green of sorts. here goes...

Top of the little table.

Some details.

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Comments (30)

  • 18 years ago

    That is sooooooooooooo unique. Your grout couldn't be better - absolute perfection. What a wonderful little trash to treasure table. Where you puttin' it? I so love this, and while I was visiting my DD in Dallas over the weekend, she had a wrought iron garden chair that lost it's back and I sooooooo wanted to sneak it into my Jeep to use as you've done here (for a gift for her, of course), but resisted the urge. I LOVE this table.

  • 18 years ago

    Oh, how pretty. That is the cutest table. I love the colors and the circles. Your grouting job is perfectly done.
    Bianchi

  • 18 years ago

    Where am I putting it? LOL!! Jack the tom cat has taken a liking to it and before it was grouted would go to sleep on it in the basement. DH just called me in the livingroom where I had placed it and guess who's on the table????

  • 18 years ago

    Love the color combination and the green textured glass. Nice job cutting and laying the green glass on the edge. Real professional looking.

  • 18 years ago

    Oh that turned out just great. Love the grout color.

  • 18 years ago

    Actually Sirius, the edge is made of ceramic tiles for a bathroom or kitchen. The textured stain glass did provide a bit of a challenge. Simply set on the table, it would have been too low, so I cut the same shapes from white opaque stain glass and glued it to the corresponding textured piece. This gave each of them a bit of a lift.

    The white pieces behind those texture pieces were cut slightly smaller so when I grouted, the dark grout went behind the textured pieces for about 1/4 inch which created a really nice look.

    Sometimes I think too much... But I think it paid off in this case. :O)

  • 18 years ago

    beautiful table Tiffy,I love the green and red.You did a beautiful job.

  • 18 years ago

    PUUUURRRFECT! Adorable!!! We may have to do a Canadian Gift Exchange!!lol!

  • 18 years ago

    PUUUURRRFECT! Adorable!!! We may have to do a Canadian Gift Exchange!!lol!

  • 18 years ago

    I'm glad you pointed out the details under that green textured glass. I now notice the dark outline your technique created. I have some of that textured glass - rather brittle and not so easy to shape. You did good.

  • 18 years ago

    That is the cutest table! I LOVE it! I see what you mean on the edge of the glass, it looks great, like you meant to do it that way. The grout color is perfect!

  • 18 years ago

    That is so sweet.....love the colors and design.......beautiful work!! Jack's got good taste!

  • 18 years ago

    Wow, looks fantastic

  • 18 years ago

    I like this table too! Very expensive looking!
    Becky

  • 18 years ago

    WOW! Really LOVE this table! Glad you ponted out the green textured glass ...the grout leaking around it sure makes it look unique and BEAUTIFUL! Great colors...Great design..GREAT work of art!!!

  • 18 years ago

    This came out so nice, no one will ever know it began as a chair! I really like those colors and that was very clever to make that lift for the textured glass.
    ( I believe that I have the same chairs in my dining room now, my Dh may just come home to 1 less! )

  • 18 years ago

    Fabulous! it came out just so beautiful!

  • 18 years ago

    Absolutely LOVE everything about the little table! Jack, as all cats, understand that the best place to showcase himself is on the prettiest spot in the house! Your little patterned flowers are such a wonderful idea....may have to copy that one. Was it hard to position and drill the correct angle to re-attach the legs? Looks like it was complicated from that standoint as well. Great Job!

    Pat

  • 18 years ago

    Very pretty! Love the colors and design of this piece.

  • 18 years ago

    Found Jack on the table again when I came in from work today. He thanks everyone for the compliments on his new found perch! :O)

    Curbdiver,

    I'll post photos here of the bottom of the table. As you can see, I didn't completely remove the seat, even though the thought of drilling holes for the legs to go in had come to mind. What I did instead was cut most of the seat out. Then came the issue of leveling the surface. In the second photo you'll see that the seat was made out of layers of wood pressed together then glued. So I took a chisel and began taking layers out to make it level. Then I positioned the legs to the surface and glued with clamps leaving it be for several days.

    Now a word of warning to anyone who might decide to cut such a seat. Since lots of glue was initially used in the making of the original seat, do not try to cut with a jigsaw or the like. Use a circular saw... and ear plugs!!

    Calamity,
    A Canadian Gift Exchange might not be out of the question. :O) I will probably hibernate for the next little while though since I have one messy mosaic room to clean up after finishing WIPs which had been lingering! Feels good to be looking at starting something else.

  • 18 years ago

    That is so cute! Perfect job grouting.

  • 18 years ago

    That table is so pretty a great job.

  • 18 years ago

    You did a really wonderful job on this!

  • 18 years ago

    Love that table. The green grout really set it off.

  • 18 years ago

    That is just darling! I love it!

  • 18 years ago

    There's nothing more to add. This came out terrific! Most excellent grouting job!

  • 18 years ago

    It's turned out wonderfully! VERY nicely done! I REALLY like it!

  • 18 years ago

    That is so KEWL!!!! Its like a funky green amoeba...I love how you explained it all so well, especially with the green glass and how you made it thicker by using two pieces!!!! When I did my mosiaked chair recently I really should have taken off the seat and made a new one..it was layered like you said your wood was and I just couldnt see myself getting it reworked correctly!!!

    GREAT JOB!!!

  • 18 years ago

    Had to come take another look, your grouting is superb!! And Really like the look of the green glass now that you mention it!!

  • 18 years ago

    Jack has good taste!

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